Non-payers

[cclc1976]

Maybe I'm getting paranoid, but I'm starting to feel as though I'm being deliberately targeted by non-payers. I've had five non-payers in the last month. All buyers with low feedback, I get zero communication from them. One had even paid for 3 other items while my unpaid dispute was open with them. I couldn't hazard a guess as to why they would do something like that deliberately, but it just seems like a weird coincidence that after being a member for 7 years, and never having unpaid items before, that I should get 5 in one month. How can I discourage this? I make my payment conditions very clear, with a friendly tone of course! And I specifically say that if you can't afford to buy please don't bid. Are there trolls on Ebay? Stranger things have happened. Thanks for listening.

[davewil1964]

Rhetoric, but as usual, no solutions.

[harddrive2012]

Personally, when I bid on something and win, I pay immediately. Regardless of it being BIN or not. My view on buying is that, if you bid on something then you should pay up within 24hrs. If can't pay up then don't bid.

I've had a couple of non payers and it can be very annoying. However, it's just part and parcel of selling on ebay. It's just like annoying inlaws, you just have to put up with them!

[viewmont1071]

hahaimnotpayingforthis

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[auctionwer]

Totally agree. Buyers who require cases in order to initiate payment (and then pay by echeque) or who don't communicate, I block: I don't have the time to wait. Blocking certain serial v. slow payers in the category I am in has resulted in bids flowing in from other buyers who, I think, were put off by the successful (but slow, or non-payers) monopolising my narrow market niche.

[auctionwer]

I do wonder whether buyers I have blocked use proxies (other buyers) to bid.

[springyzone]

I was wondering how easy is it for people to have more than one account. I have noticed some boardies here have said they are posting  under a different name to the one they usually sell from, so I am assuming it must be quite possible to hold multiple accounts. It would probably be a lot of bother though as I suppose you would need different bank accounts or paypal accounts or whatever.

I also wonder how easy is it for someone who has been banned off ebay to come back under another name.

[lyndal1838]

It is very easy to open multiple ebay accounts...all you need is a different email address for each one.  You can have up to 8 ebay IDs attached to the one paypal account, so no need for multiple bank accounts.

Most of the regular boardies have different buying, selling and posting IDs.

If someone is banned from ebay they are not allowed to just open another ID.  I am sure it happens, but it should not.